Status Updates From This Compulsion In Us

A visit to Jamaica, festival, meanins, Book of Night Women, the patois, the precarious boatride, trying foods, beginning to make new sounds, language meaning, as soon as the sound arrives, begins yo be used, within 24hrs it is lost

Part 1: He Whare Tūpuna ~ By your Place in the World
Ancestors, family, landscape, on (not) belonging, discord between aspects of self, origin stories, our own and in the culture, mythology and creation story, paradoxes in writing and being, knowing a grandmother for 4 years, bread and butter pudding, separation from mother, inspiration of Merata

Meeting the Ancestor on the Road
Tonight Morrison acceptance of signs quote
Carl Mika, Maori philosopher, quote 'worldedness'
Place and self are inseparable, formed by each other constantly
The unknown underlies all that is known
Parallel dimensions in time
Parihaka, 5 Nov, 1881 Day of Plunder
What if?
On the genre creative nonfiction